Online Teaching Resources and Inspiration

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This page is about online resources for teaching. Teaching online begs the question, "what is teaching?". Once that is understood online resources can be constructed to support that process. 5 things to learn about teaching from k-12

 

European resource from the edknoppix

http://www.eun.org/web/guest;jsessionid=9B5BA35219D839A4C21C465F449C5EF9

 

 

Stanford Offers Open course with social networking communities

Web2.0 The future of Education Classroom 2.0 Training for Educators, Ning signup on bottom right.

 

Next Gen Elearning I like the part about seeing feedback motivating the learner. I know the visits on this site keep me going. ATgentive To bad they don't offer free accounts. I'd like to try it in my classrooms.

 

Math and Science gets next gen tools

 

Collaborative Syllabus Allow students to signal what they want to learn and potentially what they are accountable for.

 

Cabrillo's Digital Bridge Academy

 

Outcomes Assessments and Evidence Based Learning

Digital Arrays for Evidence based Learning Classic Etudes

 

 

[http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/58676_2/ |Capturing Learning Moments

 

sofia Open Source Classroom

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT

Learning Centered Principles and Diagrams

 

E Learning US News and World Report Article

 

Schools standing in the way?

 

Online high school by 2019

Are Schools Inhibiting 21st Century Learning?

by Dave Nagel

 

Extra Credit

Teacher Survey Highlights

What did teachers have to say about education technology in the 2007 Speak Up survey?

• 33% identified themselves as technology experts, with 56 percent claiming to be average technology users.

• Technologies most used by teachers: e-mail and IM (93%), PowerPoint (59%), listening to podcasts or watching online video (35%).

• Most common use of education technology: homework and practice (51%).

• Three most important skills for students to learn: communication (80%), effective use of technology (73%), complex problem solving (63%).

More Information

• Project Tomorrow

--D. Nagel

The idea of technology in education is to enhance learning, not limit it. Yet a large portion of students say teachers and school IT departments are doing just that: throwing up barriers to learning with the very technology that's supposed to facilitate it. And teachers, administrators, and parents seem to be largely unaware of this, according to the results of the 2007 Speak Up survey released Tuesday by Project Tomorrow.

The fifth-annual Speak Up survey polled more than 367,000 "education stakeholders"--parents, students, administrators, and teachers--and found that while 66 percent of administrators, 43 percent of parents, and 47 percent of teachers said they believed "local schools are doing a good job preparing students for jobs and careers of the future," students disagreed. Among middle and high school students, 40 percent indicated that teachers are limiting their use of technology in schools, and 45 percent said that school "security" practices, such as Web filtering, were limiting their ability to take advantage of technology for learning.

 

*What did teachers have to say about education technology in the 2007 Speak Up survey?

• 33% identified themselves as technology experts, with 56 percent claiming to be average technology users.

• Technologies most used by teachers: e-mail and IM (93%), PowerPoint (59%), listening to podcasts or watching online video (35%).

• Most common use of education technology: homework and practice (51%).

• Three most important skills for students to learn: communication (80%), effective use of technology (73%), complex problem solving (63%).

 

 

 

PBwiki

Undocumented Help Wiki

The PBwiki blog for education Plus info on new beta system

Wiki Etiquette I've been concerned about un monitored student feedback in group email or discussion boards. I'm posting this as it would be a good link to have the students review. I'll have to remember myself to check spelling, grammar and prevent sarcasm or other negative thoughts from appearing in the wiki. Especially, when I'm tired.

 

Uses of a Wiki in Education

 

ACM to Adopt SkillSoft

Best thing to every happen!!!

SkillSoft Skill Port Login

 

I currently use

TCT Webcampus Now Skillset

 

Other References

Lots of free books for IT

CSTA K-12 Repository

Open Library Search Efforts

ebooks real stuff IT people can use

Genetic Programming Creative Commons downloadable book. More below

Includes IT jobs in higher ed

Potential to have book links relating to STEM and CSIT

Retiring Professor adopts teaching technology What does it take to convert a soon-to-retire engineering professor enamored of the chalkboard into someone who loves a technology tool?

 

PRO Learn European project to coordinate research computers and corporate elearning

 

Library of Textbooks

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http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/200-free-online-classes-to-learn-anything

 

Library of Tech Books

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Community College Consortium for Open Textbooks

Tech Books for Free

FLOSS Manuals OSS project for quality Linux manuals

 

Other related IBITI links: slo, sloreferences, Online Teaching Resources, and curriculum

 

 

Dr. Dobbs

ars technica, dark reading, it toolbox, freshmeat,

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Genetic Programming Creative Commons downloadable book

A Field Guide to Genetic Programming

Press Release (04/14/08) Poli, Riccardo; Langdon, William B.; McPhee, Nicholas Freitag

The automated programming technique known as genetic programming (GP) is the subject of "A Field Guide to Genetic Programming," a new book by Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon, and Nicholas Freitag McPhee. GP is a systematic, domain-independent method that computers can use to solve problems automatically, starting from a high-level statement of the task, says Poli, a professor in the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems at the University of Essex. The technique makes use of ideas from natural evolution, initially starting from random computer programs, then refines them through processes that are similar to mutation and sexual recombination, and the result is high-fitness solutions. Users do not have to know or specify the form or structure of the solution in advance, Poli says. Novel scientific discoveries and patentable inventions have already emerged from GP. The book is available for free under a Creative Commons license.

 

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